8Months

Well yet another month has passed and she is now 8 months old. 8/12 = 2/3 of a year as parents. We have changed more in that 2/3 a year than perhaps we, as adults and as a couple, have ever changed but it dims in comparison to how much Lillian has changed. I was organizing pictures the other day and I was amazed to see this strange, wrinkly, tiny, hairy little baby looking up at me from the pictures.

Thankfully, she has started to eat her baby food with an interest now. Before she would eat a bit when it was time but not really too interested in it nor did she eat anything substantial. She is loving her food now and often times we cant shovel it in fast enough. If we go too slow she cries. I have made most all my own baby food so far and she has done well, we are trying to introduce her to wide variety of flavors and textures now in the hopes she wont be a picky eater later. Breastfeeding also helps with this since she has already tasted those flavors in my breast milk and I eat a wide variety of foods and a pretty healthy diet.

So far she has tried and liked: sweet potatoes, squash, zucchinni, carrots, spinach, corn, potatoes, black beans, pumpkin, and asparagus.

We have not done as wide a variety of fruits but she has tried: bananas, blue berries, raspberries, apples, pears, peaches, and watermelon.

I have also started introducing spices, very mild spices come first in very small quantities and then you work your way up. Many countries have their children eating spices right from the beginning with no problems. It is a good way to add flavor and get her introduced to flavor early without adding sugar or salt. So far she has tried and liked cinnamon that I mixed into pumpkin and applesauce.

The only item that has not went well is rice cereal which seems to cause her to have massive issues of vomiting, not every time she eats it but every time she has had one of these marathon vomitting sessions where she will vomit 8-12 times until all the contents are out and she is just heaving. It is so sad and had me really worried for a bit, the only thing I could figure out as a link on each day was rice cereal. I stopped feeding her rice cereal and no more vomiting. Of course rice has a very low allergenic potential so I dont htink its that, I dont know if it coudl have been perhaps something wrong with that specific box. I will wait a bit longer and try it again to see what happens since I doubt we will be able to avoid eating rice unless its necesaary for her because we eat it all the time. She has done well with barley, and oatmeal.

Aside from all the excitement in the food arena she has achieved the following milestones: pre-crawl stage on all fours where she used to do a tripod and get one leg stuck. She now says
mamamammamam occasionally instead of just daddadadad and she also throws in dg variation.

She also loves pulling on doggies eyes, ears, tail etc while laying on carpet, they are very good and at the most lick her off of them and then move over a bit--much to their future dismay it wont be long until she follows them! She is also a jumper and jumps all the time when you are holding her, I was told I did this too and also loved my johnny jumper so she doesnt get that from a stranger.

Where did the time go?

Lillian at Gma & Gpa V's Property

Seven Months

Wow, it's official, we have been a family of three for the majority of a year! Time really does fly.

The scientist in me has been extrapolating, here is what I figure: If the first 6 months seemed like 6 weeks then she should be 18 years old in 6weeks/26weeks=0.23 18years x 0.23= 4.14 years=4years 7weeks 1day & 8 hours!!!! AND if what everyone tells me is true and the time goes even faster once they get older then I had better really cherish these baby days huh???

I must admit that I am writing this post way way late so I wont coment much on milestones--there will be alot of description for 8 months since that was what I was going to start today (early) when I realized I forgot last month.

She is starting to eat her solid foods a bit better, so far she has not rejected anythign we have tried: sweet potatoes, rice cereal, carrots, spinach, squash. I have been making her baby food thus far and it is pretty easy.

She loves to jump in her jumpee or now in her excersaucer as she is strong enough to make it bounce up and down. She is also a pro at sitting up and leaning to get what she wants though she will take a tumble while doing this still at times. On a funny note she also loves to be on Daddy's shoulders, it gives her a nice viewpoint plus she loves to lick his head while grabbing his face and ears to hold on; it's adorable.

One of her favorite thigns is to be outside, she especially likes to swing on our front porch and if the wind blows she opens her mouth like she is trying to taste it. Another thing she loves to do is take a bath, she will also open her mouth and catch the water sprays. She splashes alot and smiles. She will drink as much of the water as you will let her. I have been trying to make sure to dribble water down her face alot so she will get used to it (making bath time much easier) and so she will like the water and not be afraid of it--she does great, blinks her eyes or rubs them and keeps on smiling and playing. She also loves the kiddie pool, I have even used it in the kitchen one day with a pitcher of water in it so I could get some work done in there, that with a few dishes thrown in and she floated them around and splashed for over an hour (with a splash radius of about a foot which I wasnt expecting!).

She also really has 'awakened' to the dogs. Before she was occasionally noticing them and liking them. Now she always seems to be on the lookout for them. She will scream and scream is she sees them walk past, utnil they come up to her then she will smile and usually pull away because they are inevitably licking her in teh face. They are very good with her, seh is also starting to tug, pull, and poke them in the face and they never bat an eye--even when I saw her sticking her little finger into their eyes, Sachi moved her face and licked Lillian (good distraction technique).

that is all for this months edition of Lillian's world

since I posted her 6 month pictures last time and I dont have 7 back yet here are some snap shots.